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The network aims to increase the visibility of law and humanities study in Canada by facilitating collaborative projects, ideas, and events. Find more here: https://cnlh.ubc.ca/
WINTER Term Card:
We are excited to share our seminar schedule for next term! Our slate of speakers cover a range of #18thc British history topics.
Registrations are now open (with paper abstracts) at the link below 👎
@ihr.bsky.social @ihrlibrary.bsky.social
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
The deadline for paper proposals has been extended to
🗓️ 16 January 2026!
We would be grateful if you could forward this call to your respective networks, particularly those in the humanities.
Please find details for the call for paper here: ishtip.org/forthcoming-...
Friends, can I ask you to spread the word that we have a THREE-YEAR postdoc in American history at Cambridge up for grabs - ANY field, but applications are due March 1 so don't delay - apply, apply, apply! networks.h-net.org/jobs/69790/u...
10.02.2026 17:24 — 👍 245 🔁 270 💬 3 📌 4
Portraits of three Native American Professor speakers and their book covers, promoting an online event
I'm thrilled to be presenting @arsavium.bsky.social & @pepepierce.bsky.social in conversation about their new books at @intellpublics.bsky.social with Audra Simpson!! Monday, Feb 23 at 6:30pm EST via Zoom webinar. @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @dukepress.bsky.social register: bit.ly/gc-cuny-regi...
11.02.2026 16:37 — 👍 23 🔁 13 💬 1 📌 3
Cover of Art as Sanctuary: Conjuring an Africana Aesthetic by Michael D. Harris. A white cover with a light blue gradient featuring a piece of art showing Africana aesthetics. The art features the face of a woman in blue with a cowrie shell drawn on her forehead. The title is in a red serif font in the bottom left corner. Below this is the subtitle in a thinner black type. The author's name is below the subtitle in all caps in a sans serif type. In the top left corner the editors, introduction authors, and foreword writer are given in italics.
Save 30% on #NewBook "Art as Sanctuary," by the late Michael D. Harris, which examines literal and metaphorical uses of sanctuary in African American art and music. The book was edited by Dianne M. Stewart and Theophus H. Smith. #BlackArt #ArtBooks
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Come join our dynamic team at AJIL!
11.02.2026 20:23 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Save the dates for upcoming research colloquia! CES is excited to have affiliate faculty currently working on issues related to Europe and the languages spoken there present this year.
#europeanstudies #ubc
Join CES as Dr. Mhishi examines how Europe contends with how it will be constituted in the future, a recurring challenge has been how Europe engages, in this instance particularly in relation to Africa, in processes of reparation in the aftermath of colonial histories that shape the present.
30.01.2026 18:16 — 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Join CES postdocs and graduate students for a weekly drop-in writing session in BuTO 999A. The space will be available Thursdays 11 AM-1 PM from February 19-April 23. No meeting will be held on April 2.
No RSVP required.
LHub, Institute of Historical Research and IALS logos stacked with LHub in the middle.
Call for Convenors - The Law and Humanities Hub at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (LHub) and the Institute of Historical Research (IHR) invite proposals from conveners for a new History and Law seminar to be launched in May 2026.
Download call 👇
ials.sas.ac.uk/sites/defaul...
The Choreography of Consent: "experiments in dance/law research, which bring together artists, practitioners and scholars to develop innovative dance and law research methods that explore the movement of consent." Online event on 13th Feb 👇 tinyurl.com/2ucnxze5
29.01.2026 09:21 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
CALL FOR PAPERS: LHub's new project: law and humanities in the 'Four Nations', ECR network: with forthcoming workshops in England, Wales, Scotland and N Ireland. Fab events for our ECR community 👏 👇 @adiver.bsky.social @ials.bsky.social tinyurl.com/yrk86hyp
29.01.2026 09:32 — 👍 12 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 1LCH conference submission deadline extended to Feb. 5!
01.02.2025 18:14 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Please join us on Wednesday, February 25 12:30pm (Pacific) for Anat Rosenberg's talk "What is the Rule of Law Made Of?" Please email info@cnlh.ubc.ca for more information. Join us in person @allard.ubc.ca (light lunch served)
05.02.2026 20:53 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
cnlh.ubc.ca/call-for-pap...
13.12.2025 19:37 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0I loved editing this new Arts essay👇 fab interdisciplinary scholarship ⭐; unison gives way to polyvocal views. Do read to the end: this is 1st arts review of music in L&H & it flags creative space for future collaboration between lawyers, artists & those with lived experiences of rights violations.
27.10.2025 15:43 — 👍 0 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
'Art Law in Fiction and Film': event at National Gallery, London, 11am-12pm, Tues 9th Dec, organised by the Art Lawyers' Association. And to our L&H community: if you go, please say 👋 to our Arts Editor @drelenacooper.bsky.social who will be attending! tinyurl.com/2w7fcmue
27.11.2025 12:45 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0For anyone who missed UBC-Allard Professor Godwin Dzah's excellent CNLH Presents talk, it is now available on our website: cnlh.ubc.ca/cnlh-present...
13.12.2025 19:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The recording of Professor Dzah's CNLH talk is now available on the website: cnlh.ubc.ca/cnlh-present...
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Critical Times Law & Humanities Summer School University of Lucerne July 6-10, 2026. Open to PhD, PostDoc, Grads to re/think the significance of bodies in various contexts, situations and relations. Or to ask: do bodies still matter? Deadline: March 20, 2026
More Info: www.unilu.ch/en/faculties...
Very exciting, there is a new learned society in legal studies, the Legal Humanities Association. It's based in the UK but very explicitly international in focus. It aims to foster a community dedicated to cultural understandings of law. legalhumanities.com
02.04.2025 13:16 — 👍 19 🔁 11 💬 3 📌 1
The legal humanities are a global phenomenon. Read why the IHA now has an established working group in this area from our WG Co-Chair @adamhanna.bsky.social @ucc.ie
www.irishhumanities.com/blog/the-leg...
As #internationallaw is put on pressure, Sophocles’ Antigone is an age-old referent of its material source.
And a reminder that you can deny/diminish its effective power as ‘higher law’ but you cannot eliminate its heartbeat.
Our sensibility to suffered injustice & calls to ‘Justice herself’
CfP: announcing the 8th L&H Roundtable workshop 'Visions of Democracy in Art and Literature' @tcddublin.bsky.social on 19 Jun 2026. Submit abstracts to Roisin.acostello@tcd.ie by Fri 6 Feb @legalhumanities.bsky.social @sophiedoherty.bsky.social @dkennytcd.bsky.social @drelenacooper.bsky.social 👇
05.11.2025 15:47 — 👍 7 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 3
We're delighted to see the annual Law and Humanities roundtable is coming to Ireland for the first time (in association with the @irishhumanities.bsky.social Legal Humanities Working Group).
Congratulations and best of luck to the leads, Róisín Costello and David Gurnham.
CFP below!
We're searching for a new Editor-in-Chief! Please see Call for Applications:
legalhistoryblog.blogspot.com/2025/08/law-...